Food Service Contractors · California

Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center

Palmdale, CA · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center: 5.2 TCR = 173% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center safety composite

Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center: 2.9 → 13.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center's TCR rose 10.8 from 2.9 in 2017 to 13.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Palmdale, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 173% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #324/586
  • PHOTO Colby College Robert…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colby College Roberts Hall (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center averages 5.2 TCR (173% of the Food Service Contractors BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center TCR series: 2017=2.9 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=13.7 · BLS 3.0

Where Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #324 safest of 586 Food Service Contractors employers in California.

Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center (39 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center
Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center (39 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sodexo at Palmdale Regional Med Center has fewer employees than the Food Service Contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 13.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.8 1.3 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 2.9 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · CA · Palmdale

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 135 employers in Palmdale, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Colby College Roberts Hall 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARTSQ ADMIN 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glencoe-Silver* 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIV - SETON DIN (HEBRO 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE San Felipe Farms 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schreiner Brothers Farms 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE TLC Custom Farming Company LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonoma Valley Vineyards 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A502 5,323 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-06 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Palmdale Campus (1513) 3,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 612 2,127 FTE
NAT-TCR Logan Regional Hosptial 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 10557 Englewood 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 035 Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sureway #525 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Behavioral Health-Wake (Navaho Drive) 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Tire - Indianapolis. (SMRU12940) 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lawrenceville LRW 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wright County- Auditor/Treasurer 39 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.